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Would Maliki dare to turn the tables on Al-Sadr?

Since the emer­gence of the Iraqi elec­tion results, Maliki lived his worst days. The prime Min­is­ter who man­aged to win about 600 thou­sand votes (about 1/3 of the votes in Bagh­dad), now finds him­self pay­ing the price of his sweep­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Increased his chances, Maliki’s next step is to exclude the Al-Sadr

Maliki announced today that 2 top Al-Qaeda lead­ers are killed, Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi (who is already cap­tured before: April 24, 2009. The sec­ond is Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who is also killed May 1, 2007 few times before (the death of … Con­tinue read­ing

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What the Sadrists referendum means?

In press con­fer­ence in Najaf, Sadrists “Salah Al-Ubaidi” announced the results of the ref­er­en­dum and it came as the fol­low­ing: Al-Ja’afari 24%, Ja’afar Al-Sadr 23%, Kusai Al-Suhail 17%, Al-Maliki 10%, Allawi 9%, Cha­l­abi 3%, Adil Abd Al-Mahdi 2%, Al-Isawi 1%, … Con­tinue read­ing

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The dispute over the presidency in Iraq

Every now and then, Vice-President Tariq Al-Hashimi repeats his call for an Arab Pres­i­dent in Iraq and not a Kurd, but in the com­ing four years the Pres­i­dent posi­tion will be a pow­er­less hon­orary posi­tion, then why the Kurds insist … Con­tinue read­ing

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The real test behind Al-Sadr referendum

Poorly cov­ered in the media, but as I expected the Sadrists vis­ited Saudi Ara­bia (with Syr­ian medi­a­tion) and met with the Saudi FM Saud Al-Faisal. At the same time, some angry west­ern media crit­i­cized the Sadrists ref­er­en­dum say­ing: Since then … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sadrists still pulling the strings, Allawi left with no options

Out of the sud­den, both Shi­ite coali­tions started to soften their words and “flirt” with Allawi, Ammar Al-Hakim in this video clip [Ara­bic] says the fol­low­ing: There will be no gov­ern­ment with­out Allawi .. He is our part­ner in the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Negotiations between the two Shiite coalitions failed

Al-Hayat revealed today that Maliki him­self went to Tehran in secret visit to nego­ti­ate with INA (the Sadrists) and news­pa­per even revealed that Maliki offered to name another can­di­date for the PM post. Despite Al-Hayat report say­ing that Muq­tada Al-Sadr was … Con­tinue read­ing

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Foreign influences on the formation of a ruling coalition in Iraq

Min­utes after the offi­cial announce­ment of elec­tion results, Allawi talked to his sup­port­ers say­ing the fol­low­ing: Iraq is ready to extend a hand of broth­er­hood to all neigh­bor­ing coun­tries, (such as) Syria, Saudi Ara­bia, Turkey, Iran, Jor­dan and Kuwait, on … Con­tinue read­ing

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The new government and the bumpy road ahead

First and just reported, a sur­prise announce­ment: IHEC revealed today that three days before the elec­tion, IHEC received a deci­sion made by the Prime Min­is­ter him­self, in which he can­celed the deci­sions and the author­ity of the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity … Con­tinue read­ing

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Last leaked results before the official announcement .. Update

Update .… Results and num­ber of seats are on every Ara­bic news­pa­per today, after leaked by Al-Quds Al-Arabi: — Al-Iraqiya 91 seats. — SoL 89 seats. — INA 71 seats. — Kur­dis­tan Coal. 41 seats. — Goran 8 setas. — Iraq Unity 4 seats. — Islamic … Con­tinue read­ing

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